Kirsten R. Dedrickson
Associate
Kirsten Dedrickson is a trusted litigator who helps clients navigate challenging matters, including complex litigations and investigations. She has experience in all stages of litigation and has taken several cases to trial. She also leverages her experience as a federal judicial law clerk in the “rocket docket” of the Eastern District of Virginia to provide strategic litigation advice.
Kirsten focuses a significant portion of her practice litigating and advising clients regarding antitrust issues. She has been one of the primary associates in several antitrust litigation matters involving claimed damages in the 8-9 figures, including a Robinson-Patman Act case and a Sherman Act case involving allegations of exclusive dealing, predatory pricing, and tortious interference. In addition to her antitrust experience at the district court level, Kirsten has also drafted a Rule 23(f) class certification interlocutory appeal petition in a high-stakes monopsony case. Kirsten also advises clients in responding to civil investigative demands and subpoenas brought by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, including in investigations involving allegations of price fixing and anti-competitive information sharing.
In addition to her antitrust practice, Kirsten represents businesses in a wide variety of complex commercial litigations. Kirsten has handled complex commercial litigations involving, among others, claims of antitrust violations, unfair competition in violation of the Lanham Act and California’s Unfair Competition Law, copyright and trade secret misappropriation, breaches of contract, tortious interference, fraud, and vicarious liability and negligence for personal injury.